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Acts 7:42

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But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,
‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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Acts 7:42 in other translations

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Acts 7:42 · American Standard Version

Acts 7:42 in context

  1. 40saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
  2. 41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
  3. 42But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,
    ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices
    forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
  4. 43You took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
    the star of your god Rephan,
    the figures which you made to worship.
    I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’
  5. 44“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;